Is it really true? i have not seen a photo of an AA Boeing 757 in MAN for months! And when I tried to see if a such a flight existed on the AA website, I found nothing. Has AA stopped BOS-MAN? Did it do poorly?

MAN-BOS was originally timetabled as a seasonal service, summer only. It is back for next summer and will probably go year round. Loads were in excess of 95% and can safely be described as a success for AA.

Unfortunately fleet planning isn't an instant issue and tickets were only sold up until the end of October, so the MAN-MIA service took the slot at MANT3. That finishes in the spring and MAN-BOS starts again.

MAN-MIA has been renewed for 2005-2006 using a 767, but this would not preclude AA using a 757 for year-round BOS service as well. aa.com is selling tickets for these services now.

Thanks Crosswind and MAd Hatter for clearing this issue up. I look forward to seeing their 757s cross the Atlantic again in the summertime. So this means that when the BOS-MAN returns, the MIA-MAN route ends? That seems kind of strange that AA would end MIA-MAN...is it really that hard to profit on both routes at the same time?

MAN-MIA caters for winter traffic when Brits head south for the sun. Just look at the traffic into Orlando. There isn't quite as much in the summer when closer destinations are warmer.

Expect both routes to be operating next winter. AA like the cash they have made from MAN-BOS in the summer, and route profiling has indicated that it would not just be holiday traffic in the warm months.

BOS-GLA might not be able to support itself, but there are feeder services to do the route GLA-MAN-BOS seamlessly through MANT3. If you haven't used MAN to transit then you won't know just how comfortable and easy that is. T3 is a compact and very modern terminal to change flights in.

AA #6680 is a BA operated flight, they just code share on it, so it could not have been the third AA 763 you saw. If anything, the third 763 was probably a diversion of another AA flight bound for mainland Europe.

Having flown with AA on MAN-BOS in July and MAN-MIA in January I can tell you that both flights were over 80% full. I think AA could easily fly the BOS route year-round and maybe so with the MIA route within the next year or two. I think both would continue to prove popular.

You don't normally get 3 AA 763s into MAN. I'm sure it was a day in October. My dad keeps a notebook with the registrations in but I can't find anything in there so it must have been a day when I had gone across on my own. I was expecting to see one 763 on the ORD run, which has been doing it for years and a 752 on the BOS run. I was wanting a photo of the AA 752, as obviously it is something of a rarity over here. I was a bit disappointed to see the second 763, but surprised to see a third. Maybe one had gone tech or something the day before???